The fighting continued all day long. Abimelech captured the city, killed its people, tore it down, and covered the ground with salt.

But the water in the marshes and ponds along the shore will not be made fresh. They will remain there as a source of salt.

As surely as I am the living LORD, the God of Israel, I swear that Moab and Ammon are going to be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah. They will become a place of salt pits and everlasting ruin, overgrown with weeds. Those of my people who survive will plunder them and take their land."